Girlfriend has been given vouchers to try a free month out at the local gym, thanks to the company she works for (cool benefits). Because I've been getting real lazy lately since I lost my job, I guess this is an opportunity I certainly can't pass up. After all, I really need to get into shape. Simply put, I'm a real wimp for my age. And a little overweight in the belly area.
Well, so far two days have passed in the gym. I have to say that my arms, as well as my chest, hurt like hell. I have been rotating between several different machines, Lat Presses, Tricep presses, walking machines, yadda yadda. Minor headaches abound here and there, with small bouts of nausea. I've been told that I've basically knocked around my equilibrium so that it is playing tricks with my head.
And Girlfriend still has the gall to ask me for a backrub.
Free trial ends at the end of this month. Goal: to get some sort of muscle tone in my arms and chest, and to reduce the weight in the belly area.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I'll stick with my daily chronic masturbation regimen, thanks. Along wioth the supplement of trying to keep up with my rabid crack-addled chihuahua of a girlfriend.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote:And Girlfriend still has the gall to ask me for a backrub
When the backrub leads to sex, I usually don't care what shape I am in.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
quote:Originally posted by Grokca:
quote:And Girlfriend still has the gall to ask me for a backrub
When the backrub leads to sex, I usually don't care what shape I am in.
Not in my case. Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Tahna:
To reduce the kegger into a six-pack, I suggest using either the bike or the treadmill. I go about 30 minutes on the bike and 2 miles (fast walk - burns as much cals as a run) on the treadmill. It's been cutting my weight down a bit (of course, I'm not eating any better, so it's only partially helping).
Push yourself on those weights, and remember to skip a day between workouts ... you want to push yourself, you don't want to kill yourself. What I do, is cardiovascular every day (Mon -> Friday) but I only use the machines Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Bench pressing is a good way to judge how strong you're getting -- it took me two months from doing just the bar (no kiddin') to doing 100lbs.
Good luck. Make sure to drink a lot of water, and take a towel into the workout area with you to mop up your sweat.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Here's another piece of advise: be *very* careful. Start out slow (three times a week tops) and don't push yourself too hard. I made that mistake when I first hauled my butt to the gym two years ago. Ruptured several muscles and twisted my spine... hurt like Hell squared.
[ June 05, 2002, 09:15: Message edited by: Cartman ]
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I have four hours of Lawn mowing to do, every week. It took twenty five pounds off of me last year. If I ate a little better, I'd be in fair shape, wieght wise.
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
I have trained martial arts for about seven years altogether, gone to the gym for about four years, but when I pushed myself too hard just ONE time in a gym, coupled with drinking far too much water, I had to run to the bathroom and hurl like a grizzly.
Aside from the stomache cramps after the hurling, it was rather fun actually. I hardly felt the nausea, just the need, and all the insane waterconsumption had made the barf almost clear, and the water pressure! Man, it sounded like a jet engine, of course the door was closed so the porcelain acoustics tripled the sound effect for my poor ears.
So...don't push yourself.
My bicycling, coupled with WeightWatchers, took me down from 240 pounds to 190 in nine months. About 20 more to go until I hit that cursed BMI...
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
"Hurl like a grizzly?"
I've never seen a grizzly bear vomit. Granted, I've stepped in their shit, which looks a lot like vomit. But they're chronic hurlers? News to me.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I would like to get me to a gym. After all, I don't have just the spare tire; I have the whole freakin' tow truck. But I have quickly learned that I cannot exercise at the gym. There are too many beautiful people there that I would like to ask out for me to work out there.
So, I content myself with working the jogging/walking trail around the nearby parks. A lot less self-consciousness involved since I'm more apt to see other folks with my body proportions there than at the local gyms.
Posted by The Ulcer Mongoose (Member # 239) on :
Funny, I slightly cracked my tibia(hair line fracture, so it's really small, but hurts like a ninja kicking my face a lot. Except now he's kicking my shin) while doing leg presses just two days ago. Was doing way over my limit, as one would expect. I fell down like someone who fell down very suddenly and in heaps of pain who fell down. Did I mention I fell down? It's not so bad now, I've got to limp still, and the I grimace a lot, so I'm like an angry pirate.
Also, gym's are mostly meat markets, so if you're uncomfortable with your self image, or don't feel the need for alpha male boistering, find a better alternative, like Siggy's path jogging. It's a lot cheaper, and you don't have the whole sweaty penis fest you have at most gyms.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Hmmm... sweaty penis fest, yes.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Swimming rocks! As does Weightwatchers. I have been chubby my whole life. Became increasingly portly until 6 weeks ago I realised I was a huge porker. Not good. Six weeks later I am over a stone lighter and swimming 5-6 times a week. I have dropped 3 BMI points and 2 dress sizes! I will be a normal sized person by Christmas.
PS I actually got asked out this week too! I must be doing something right.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
Debilitating stomach problems that caused me to not be able to eat for a month work for me.. I lost 20 pounds! And kept it off!
Posted by The Ulcer Mongoose (Member # 239) on :
My job as a K-12 gym teacher at Norton High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut allows me free pass to the local Gym and Weight club, and since I'm divorced now and live the live of an unglorious bachelor, I go there all the time. There are too many penises, though, yes.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Bridgeport eh? I used to go on training courses in Shelton. And we used to stay in Stamford, not far from Bridgeport.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Don't listen to UM, he's yankin' yo chain!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I thought the Ulcer Mongoose lived in Moose Jaw...
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
you are a gym teacher like i am a... well, a gym teacher.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Don't believe anyhing Ultra Marine tells you. Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
So here doesn't really have a brother named Reynolds?
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
Ultra Burt? What a horrible prospect!
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
Oh and Siegfried, I would just like to remind you that every time you touch yourself, a cupid hits a power line. "AAh! Oh No! *BZZZZT*"
Posted by The Ulcer Mongoose (Member # 239) on :
There actually is a Bridgeport, Connecticut?
I AM TEH GOOD GUASSAR!!11
The cat is out. And dead.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Eaten by a grizzly and pooped out looking like vomit?
Posted by Magna Ultrus (Member # 239) on :
That or Sieggy was on one of his touching sprees, yes.
Facts: 1. Tibia == hurt. 2. I != Gym Teacher. 3. Grizzly Vomit == Excellent source of Vitamins B and M.
[ June 06, 2002, 21:30: Message edited by: Magna Ultrus ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"BMI points"? "Bowel Movement Intensity", maybe?
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
P4RT OF TIHS COMPLEET BREKFUST!!!11!1!
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Tim,
You know, all of a sudden, I have an intense curiousity as to what websites your peruse ... (and, oddly enough, a complete lack of appetite ... 'magine that!)
Posted by Magna Ultrus (Member # 239) on :
comp1337 indeed. I see berries!
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Snay: I am Tom. If my name was the answer in Wheel of Fortune and you said you'd like to buy an "I," you would be WORNG!!!
Posted by Magna Ultrus (Member # 239) on :
You're a sick sick sick boy, The_Tim!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Google.ca? What, does it say things like "Your search did not return any documents, eh?"?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I really ought to see about finding a new signature. And add The_Tom to the list of posters that I really ought to stay away from.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
He lives in Canada. You don't. Congratulations, you've succeeded in your task.
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